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Jane Barnette
Assistant Professor, Resident Dramaturg, Archivist, and Alpha Psi Omega Advisor
Jane Barnette received her M.A.(1996) and Ph.D. (2003) in Theatre History, Criticism, and Literature within the Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas at Austin. Before graduate school, she studied performance studies at Northwestern Univeresity, where she graduated with highest distinction in 1994 with a double-major in theatre and women’s studies. In 2006, after three years on the graduate faculty of Bowling Green State University, Barnette joined the TPS faculty at Kennesaw State University, where she currently serves as resident dramaturg, departmental archivist, and NAST liason.
Barnette teaches classes in history, theory, literature, dramaturgy, and general education. Her production credits reflect her generalist education in theatre and performance studies as well as her dedication to the combination of scholarship and artistry. As such, Barnette has worked as a director, actor, dancer, and designer (makeup and costume) in Austin and Chicago. Favorite performances include Anouilh’s Antigone (Director, BGSU), “Reagan” in a Bunraku-puppet version of King Lear (Austin), and “Charlotte Perkins Gilman” in Ann Shanahan’s adaptation of The Yellow Wallpaper (Northwestern University). Currently, she is in the early stages of a book-length project with collaborator Paulette Marty of Appalachian State University, tentatively called Theorizing the Theatre History Classroom.
Barnette is the author of “The Role of William James Davis in the Rise of Chicago Touring Theatre,” which appeared in Theatre Symposium (2005) and was developed from her dissertation, Locomotive Leisure: The Effects of Railroads on Chicago-Area Theatre, 1870-1920. Her articles and reviews have also appeared in The Writer’s Block, Theatre InSight, and Theatre Journal. She is a recipient of UT-Austin Graduate School’s Continuing Fellowship (2000-01) as well as the American Society for Theatre Research’s Dissertation Fellowship (2000), both of which helped to fund her travel expenses for archival research in the Newberry Library and the Chicago Historical Society. She is a member of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, the American Society for Theatre Research, and the Southeastern Theatre Conference.
